woohoo no emblem?..however did u play with it then?..grinz

Interesting.

Oh No !

if you can get your hands on the one with the Saudi flag on it, I think it'd be an instant collectible.

Collector's item with that soviet flag on there.

makin a mental note to myself to add balls to the list o things that "offend" the u know whos.

especially Maztah balls...oiy!

re: #5 me

if you can get your hands on the one with the Saudi flag on it, I think it'd be an instant collectible.

think they would play the Israeli Maccabee team with that one?..ha

The Beep pic had the saudi script "blurred". Bunch of chicken---s. Hell the US should have just beheaded a goat and let them play with that.

I thought Hackensack was in N.J., how did you get it in Europe?

"I had forgotten that I own such a transnational soccer ball..."

This has the hand of Zionists written all over it.

Charles ?

More balls?

Got balls?

I can't remember where I saw it but someone was trying to start a POOP (People Offended by Offended People) organization. I was going to join but... but... but I just couldn't remember where I found it.. :>(

re: #10 DesertSage

I thought Hackensack was in N.J., how did you get it in Europe?

Exactly what I was thinking!

Charles?

And I'll bet it was made in China too.

No Saudi Arabian flag on this one.

Islamophobic balls!

/Call cair!

Cool! It has the ceaucescu Romania flag on it. Whaddaya say folks, who is your favorite communist/thirdworld dictator? I'd say Erich Honecker had quite a social personality and Fidel (mister de-castro-ated) could roll a mean blunt!

Fatwa the Saudis for writing that Holy Scrit on their FLAG! Rage! Seethe! Give in quickly to self-indulgent whining!

Some of the Scandinavian countries have the image of the Christian cross on them. Kick that side of the ball and I'll be forced to riot.

But not tonight, I have to go to work tomorrow.

re: #20 Carridine

Waitaminit... didn't the Fraudis invent fatwa? "yes, I'd like a fatwa with a side order of seethe.. to go"

That is a true collector's item, defunct Soviet Union flag...

I so want one of those now...

and on that note here is my quote of the day that I came across ...
" IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM !
bwhahahaha!

goal!

From Team America:
Terrorist: "You got balls. I like balls."
Not soccer balls, of course.

re: #9 badger1970

LOL! Heeere's lookin' at ya!

Charles, please also post the 2006 World Cup soccer ball with the Israeli flag on it! (Posted on earlier thread.)

re: #25 Angel

and on that note here is my quote of the day that I came across ...
" IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM !
bwhahahaha!

goal!

GOOOAAALLL!
Fixed it!

re: #23 Thanos

I have an old Checkpoint Charlie t-shirt with the soviet flag on it for East Berlin and the American, French and Union Jack on the West side.

re: #9 badger1970

Hmmm...in Alice Through the Looking Glass, a game was played where both the sticks, and the balls the sticks were to hit --were animals! :)

(...searching for my "Annotated Alice"...for I know that whole book was a political statement, as well as being a story for Lewis Carrol's daughter... :)

I'm wondering if Charles is a bit of a pack rat. Promo ball from before the iron curtain fell. Hmmm.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

BTW..Charles...
Did u here bout The pscycho who tried to open the plane door here in NYC!

he's described as Asian...
la dee da

* There are some many here among us who would love nothing better than to kick the great balls of Allah...
***
Mosque Jihad Downunder: “They used violence and force ... to control a mosque..”

[Link: sheikyermami.com...]

re: #29 stuck in california

heh...I stand corrected!

re: #14 Gumby

I can't remember where I saw it but someone was trying to start a POOP (People Offended by Offended People) organization. I was going to join but... but... but I just couldn't remember where I found it.. :>(

Let's get Big Media (BM) inolved...

I cannot wait for the day when the religious fanatics who push for expanding The Cult™ are relegated to hiding in caves, cast aside by mainstream society worldwide.

We must all continue to expose Islam for what it is: A cult, intent on world domination, hiding behind a poor excuse of a religion. It is spread by threats, intimidation, and violence.

Thanks for all you do Charles!

re: #30 Sharmuta

re: #23 Thanos

I have an old Checkpoint Charlie t-shirt with the soviet flag on it for East Berlin and the American, French and Union Jack on the West side.

That is cool!

OT:
Obama: U.S. can't fail New Orleans again
By BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press Writer
Sun Aug 26, 1:59 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS - Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday the country cannot fail New Orleans again and that as president, he would keep the city in mind every day.

"The words never again cannot be another empty phrase," he said in front of one of the few rebuilt houses he saw on a brief tour of the city's Gentilly Woods section. "It cannot become another broken promise."

Obama is the first of several presidential candidates from both parties who are set to visit New Orleans in connection with the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday. President Bush also is expected to mark the occasion with a trip to the Gulf Coast.

Obama, whose day began at First Emanuel Baptist Church, said that long before Katrina, the nation had failed to lift up New Orleans, a city with persistent struggles such as poverty and poor public schools. He said that cannot happen again and that Americans have a "collective responsibility" to each other.

"Racial discord, poverty, the old divisions of black and white, rich and poor, it's time to leave that to yesterday," he said.
Remember this:

"MAYOR RAY NAGIN: We as black people, it’s time, it’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans and I don’t care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are, this city will be chocolate at the end of the day."Obama just cant keep his piehole shut.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

re: #33 Angel

Buddhists at it again!

Nice Ball, its just missing a picture of an UZI

re: #32 Cattt

:)

Dirty dirty dirty ball

must wash eyes out with clorox now

re: #40 chee toe

re: #33 Angel

Buddhists at it again!

an Asian in his 20's...they describe this loon...all the stats cept for one huh...I wonder what they left out?...sheesh!
ya think he had one of dem soccer balls onna plane?

What if we put the tiny Arabic letters on the US Flag. Flag burners in the Middle East would then face an existential dilemma.

"People Offended by Offended People-Better Unified Than Terrorized!"

/line forms on the left...

Let's see.. .Cold War souvenirs, I've got a wallsign I ripped off out of one of the military ski lodges in germany which details what all the various sirens mean, I've got flag orders which allowed me to use the US military train into berlin (they're stamped and signed by a russian official on the back), a soviet guards badge and packet of filterless domskoiye mahorka cigarettes... oh yeah.. and also one of those tshirts sharmuta mentioned.

re: #39 ted

OT:
Obama: U.S. can't fail New Orleans again
By BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press Writer
Sun Aug 26, 1:59 PM ET

Yeah, 'cos if we fail New Orleans again, we get a massive crime wave for the second time.

re: #45 sjborch

uh, no.

re: #45 sjborch

What if we put the tiny Arabic letters on the US Flag. Flag burners in the Middle East would then face an existential dilemma.

I dunno. My brother had a tshirt in arabic which said 'I will not submit" and his buddy had one which said "America akbar" :)

re: #49 baconeatingkaffir

Damn Right:

Charles, you need to quickly blur out that Swedish flag that is visible. Are you so bold as to blaspheme the Swedish flag?

Hey, aren't soccer balls made of pigskin as well? Maybe its against the Koran to play soccer.

re: #36 RightOfAtilla

re: #14 Gumby

I can't remember where I saw it but someone was trying to start a POOP (People Offended by Offended People) organization. I was going to join but... but... but I just couldn't remember where I found it.. :>(

Let's get Big Media (BM) inolved...

You so punny!

re: #54 baconeatingkaffir

Hey, aren't soccer balls made of pigskin as well? Maybe its against the Koran to play soccer.

naw they have the special halal version

re: #46 Carridine

Nice acronym...POOP-BUTT...

re: #31 Ma Sands

re: #9 badger1970

Hmmm...in Alice Through the Looking Glass, a game was played where both the sticks, and the balls the sticks were to hit --were animals! :)

(...searching for my "Annotated Alice"...for I know that whole book was a political statement, as well as being a story for Lewis Carrol's daughter... :)

Not for his daughter. He never married - never reproduced. He wrote the stories down and illustrated them himself and gave them to Alice Liddell (the original Alice). The copy was noticed by a writer, shown to another, tested on his children, who loved it. Consequently, the author was urged to publish. He was astonished.

Lewis Carroll is so complex and interesting - I did a graduate paper on him - don't get me started.

re: #39 ted

Obama: It is time to leave that to yesterday

Yet he and his party bring it (racial discord) up at every opportunity.

It is almost perfect. One more turn of the Saud hex and the sword would have been pointing straight at Israel, which would have been the truth.

I think I once saw a photshopped picture of ol' Mo' licking someone's balls.

Or did I dream it?

re: #59 Cattt

Ah, I love it too! Yes, I recalled too late, that he didn't marry... :)

re: #42 Ma Sands

re: #32 Cattt

:)

I know that you're thinking - Cattt's a pack rat. OK, I admit it. Sigh. You got me.

/:)

re: #56 song_and_dance_man

We do need some music, and since I like the faux rock history in this video you get it instead.

re: #56 song_and_dance_man

Can someone post the Zep song, When the Levee Breaks in honor of Nagin.

Here ya' go.

re: #62 Racer X

I think I once saw a photshopped picture of ol' Mo' licking someone's balls.

Or did I dream it?

Nightmare, more like it

re: #58 datadude

Ding-ding! We have a winner!

/now, DataDude, other readers will either claim they noticed right away and CHOSE not to comment, OR they'll ignore it altogether... YOU, however, have raised the standard!

Naah, I think this video of the NOPD looting the Wal-Marts is more appropriate than When the Levee Breaks.

re: #64 Cattt

Best way to be! :) For one thing, it keeps my grown children coming over here --they want to borrow something, and usually walk away with ten times as much as they'd planned... :) Fun!

Soccer is a sissy European sport that is undermining America's youth.
Viva la beisbol!

re: #65 song_and_dance_man

It's been a long time since animal skins were used. Soccer balls are synthetic now, inside and out.

A set of ball threads today. All we need is a pianist thread in honor of Condi Rice.

/ too much testosterone with my less than 167 I.Q., I guess.

re: #65 song_and_dance_man

man, have u ever seen what they do to goats?!...ugh.

re: #36 RightOfAtilla

re: #14 Gumby

I can't remember where I saw it but someone was trying to start a POOP (People Offended by Offended People) organization. I was going to join but... but... but I just couldn't remember where I found it.. :>(

Let's get Big Media (BM) inolved...

Now WHY didn't I think of that?

re: #73 daledog

American football is a cissy version of rugby. Helmets...sheesh !

Memories of Katrina: Beer Looter Dude

re: #79 threecoloursblue

Hmm, rugby. It's ringing a bell. I know I heard of that sport somewhere..

It's a sport, right?

re: #69 Carridine
...embarassed, he exited the stage...BWAAA-bwaa-bwaaa...
(JOHNNY, TELL US WHAT HE'S ONE...Welll, YOU'VE WON THE
HOME EDITION OF...THINKING MAAANNN!)

re: #81 daledog

And the USA has a team in this years world cup.

re: #82 datadude

ROFL!

/"I'll take Anal-Acronyms for $500, Alex!"

re: #64 Cattt

It's better to have what you don't need then to need what you don't have.

// I should join PRA (Pack Rats Anonymous) too.

re: #86 song_and_dance_man

Boot on flag;flag on ground..etc etc...

re: #81 daledog

re: #79 threecoloursblue

Hmm, rugby. It's ringing a bell. I know I heard of that sport somewhere..

It's a sport, right?

Ahhh, yep, no helmets, no padding, just bone on crunching bone tackles

re: #85 Carridine

Heheheh...Dude...you rok!

re: #89 A Kiwi Infidel

I knew you'd show up ! Want to trade Youtubes?

Sorta on topic...

While I was on vacation I saw some little green footballs on sale at the supermarket and almost bought one. :D

or some good All Black tries...

re: #83 threecoloursblue

I believe that the team captain, a South African dude, has ties to the Chicago Lions. I used to live by their hangout/office/stabbin-cabin.

re: #83 threecoloursblue

re: #81 daledog

And the USA has a team in this years world cup.

and I think they meet the All Blacks...

re: #94 Whammo

Ha ha! HA HA HAAA! HAAAHHAAA!
Heehheehe...eeehhh...uhhh...uuuhhh...What?

re: #91 threecoloursblue

re: #89 A Kiwi Infidel

I knew you'd show up ! Want to trade Youtubes?

Lets wait 'til after the world cup...who you rootin' for?

Interesting that to the right you have "N. Ireland" on the ball...I must be in a friggin' fog...is N. Ireland a sovereign nation?

re: #89 A Kiwi Infidel

"Just" bone-crunching tackes? I think you mean "The occasional" bone-cruching tackle.

re: #95 A Kiwi Infidel

You'll love this...
sea bass

re: #95 A Kiwi Infidel
Aaaahhh...the "All Blacks"...(or as my NZ brothers
pronouce it...Uhhll Bllixx...") Those dudes ROCK! If only
the USA would embrace the sport...

re: #96 daledog

The Munster team is going to Chicago soon to play the USA side in a warm up.

re: #100 cosmo

Interesting that to the right you have "N. Ireland" on the ball...I must be in a friggin' fog...is N. Ireland a sovereign nation?

In the World Cup they have their own team, as does Scotland.

When I posted earlier about the dreaded balls of blasphemy, I had forgotten that I own such a transnational soccer ball (actually, a miniature hacky-sack style promo version), acquired at a forgotten tour party in Europe, sometime while the Soviet Union was still in existence.

My guess would be 1990, as it has "Italy 1990" on it. Italy hosted the FIFA World Cup that year.

re: #100 cosmo

Ireland was partitioned in 1922. Some sporting associations are all Ireland, but soccer is a working class game and most of the bigots wouldn't play for an all-Ireland team. Hence the N. Ireland on the ball.

Sorry, my mistake, US and NZ in different pools

re: #106 threecoloursblue

re: #100 cosmo

Ireland was partitioned in 1922. Some sporting associations are all Ireland, but soccer is a working class game and most of the bigots wouldn't play for an all-Ireland team. Hence the N. Ireland on the ball.

Judging by the attitude of an Irish immigrant I used to work with, the working class Catholics wouldn't want any Protestants on their team, either.

re: #99 A Kiwi Infidel

I'm rooting for Ireland; but the pool we're in we'll be lucky to qualify second which means we meet N.Z. in the quarters... and then good-night McNight !.

Campesi says there's only four teams in it; N.Z. Aust. S. Africa and France. I tend to agree, sadly.

re: #108 Spiny Norman

Agreed. Takes two to tango.

I have a watch somewhere, made in Russia, with the USSR flag and the US flag side by side from some "mutual friendship" thing in the 1980's. Now if I only had a Saudi/US watch—oh, wait, we have no mutual friendship, just oil and money.

re: #99 A Kiwi Infidel

Wallabies!

re: #92 song_and_dance_man

re: #76 Angel

Haven't seen it but heard of it. A Muslim can't sell a sodomized animal to his own village, but can take the offended and butchered beast to the next and sell it ' as is'.

Dont look at the pics dude...you wont eat for days. ugh .

re: #102 threecoloursblue

re: #95 A Kiwi Infidel

You'll love this...
sea bass

OOhhh yeah, that dude has a price on his, now, after breaking Ali Williams jaw in the last outing with forearm shot.

But I have to ask, are the fwench so desperate that they have to show one tackle that many times!

re: #114 A Kiwi Infidel

Yes. Notice they don't show Paul O'connell's hit on him in the Heinekin Cup match Munster v. Sale Sharks. He played crap for ages after that; but unfortunately for us he's on form now.

I'd like to repeat this for all the LGF lizards:

The devil hates to be mocked!

If seeing the Saudi Flag getting kicked is insulting to "Allah", then what if stickers were put in every public urinal, toilet bowl and bidet?

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Well, one of our own LGF'ers has come up with a perfect plan for implementing such a thing:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Simply order them here: [Link: www.unflags.com...]

...and start pasting away~!

Maybe they will get the message: "There is no God called 'Allah' and he can't save himself from 'squat'"

(The inference being--if he can't save himself from being mocked, why should you give your life for him?)

~Norsk Troll

re: #112 little blessing

re: #99 A Kiwi Infidel

Wallabies!

I'll just get out my little black book..."Little Blessing rootin' for the old foe from across the ditch, ...careful wot ya say..."

Perhaps we could raise money to buy Virgin Mary soccer balls for Latin America, Poland, and Ireland.

Norsk Troll, great idea, but because the mooslums cant string 2 logical thoughts together to form a reasoned argument it is doomed to fail.

OK, here's how refined this DS vet is...
tonight's meal...garlic rizoto...an' BEER CAN
CHICKEN! WHoo HOOO...

It's too bad the US soldiers couldn't dump little green (American) footballs from the C-130s...

re: #121 datadude

...wife & kids are praizin' mah naaamme...

re: #123 datadude

...God bless those boyz at Weber (grills)...they know
what'n'th'hell they're doin'...

I didn't see if it was mentioned or not, but I think there's the old Yugoslav flag on the hackysack as well.

re: #125 pvoce

I didn't see if it was mentioned or not, but I think there's the old Yugoslav flag on the hackysack as well.

The Chinese peasants that sewed it together probably didn't care.

Here's a team they won't support
bacon united

Any way we can get the reaction from Islamic Rage Boy?

That's what you get when you try to appease the Islamists, never print Saudi Flag, never make it fly in your air.. While they can burn US flags and step on it, they can step on crosses and break them, everybody has to respect their (always offended by anything) feelings, but they don't respect other lives, religions, feelings..etc.

I guess the symbolism of the sword on the Saudi flag is that they are turning their swords into ploughshares.

Well, maybe not...

re: #6 Sharmuta

Collector's item with that soviet flag on there.

I have a set of pins from the 1990 Goodwill Games, including an East Germany flag pin. I wonder what it's worth now.

re: #118 J'accuzzi

Perhaps we could raise money to buy Virgin Mary soccer balls for Latin America, Poland, and Ireland.

I don't think that Catholic soccer players would want to kick something with a picture of the Virgin Mary on it.

re: #128 Andy Dufresne

You called?

re: #130 AWOL Civilization
It's not the happiest of flags, it is?

re: #31 Ma Sands

This is late in coming, but I have had the rare pleasure of being in the house which inspired Alice in Wonderland when I lived in England many moons ago. The looking glass is a sight to behold.

Transnational Soccer Balls of Blasphemy, the Sequel

Sometimes the title of the post is funnier than the content.

re: #129 iraqihere

That's what you get when you try to appease the Islamists, never print Saudi Flag, never make it fly in your air.. While they can burn US flags and step on it, they can step on crosses and break them, everybody has to respect their (always offended by anything) feelings, but they don't respect other lives, religions, feelings..etc.

When I saw the first thread about the Saudi flag I thought "Yeah they'd really get upset if someone were to go and burn that flag now wouldn't they?"

re: #105 Spiny Norman

Right you are...I guess I've also forgotten that Puerto Rico fields its own Olympic team, etc. A little clarity on the Sabbath.

re: #108 Spiny Norman

Sunnis and Shias can play together for Iraq...I find the Protestant/Catholic mess in Ireland a bit tiresome.

Maybe we should bring in Niall to handle things. I'm a proud descendant. He would've played football with a Catholic (or he would've kidnapped one).

re: #14 Gumby

Actually, I penned it, Gumby...calling it Perpetually Offended Oppressed People, although your rendering of it is just as yummy!

Also, there is a blasphemous DANISH flag next to the sacred flag of Misogystan. Them thar Danes, blasphemous sonsabitches, saw fit to put a CROSS on their flag, too, no doubt to rile the sympathies of the misogystanis.

Inayat Bunglawala highlights the divide between Islam and the West, in a way that I don't think he intended.

And what is missed out of a news report can often be just as telling as what is put in. At the height of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 I recall a discussion with the chairman of my local mosque. He said he had given up watching BBC/ITN/Sky News because he was not being shown footage of what impact the dropping of our bombs was having on the ordinary people of Iraq. He told me he preferred watching Chinese State TV news via his Sky system because it seemed a lot more honest on this issue than what we were being fed with by our own broadcasters.

There is not a day that goes by that we do not here of some new horror or atrocity that is committed in the name of Islam.

Not

one

single

day.

And they have the nads to be offended when we put the Saudi flag on a soccer ball?

oh, I'm so angry I could just kick the word "Allah"

re: #34 sheik yer'mami

* There are some many here among us who would love nothing better than to kick the great balls of Allah...
*** **
Mosque Jihad Downunder: “They used violence and force ... to control a mosque..”

[Link: sheikyermami.com...]

I think a successful video game could be made.

'Kick Allah in the Balls and Score'

[Opening screen with Allah bent over his sword box]

Voice of Allah: “Wage jihad on the infidels!

(Player presses the kick button and a Boot comes out to kick in the balls):

Voice of Allah: Oooouch... my balls!. Who kicked me?

[100 points appears on the counter]

Voice of Allah: “It’s your religious duty to plunder the unbelievers.”

(Player presses the kick button and an Army boot comes out and kicks Allah in the balls):

Voice of Allah: Ahhhaaa, Mother of Satan my bruised balls are aching!

[250 points appears on the counter]

Voice of Allah: “Kill one kafar you will get 72 virgins”

(Player presses the kick button and a Cowboy boot comes out and kicks Allah in the balls):

Voice of Allah: Oh sh*t those cowboy boots hurt! What have to done to my mauled balls?

[475 points appears on the counter]

Voice of Allah: “Spread Islam by the sword!”

(Player presses the "hand" button and a giant hand reaches out and twists Allah’s balls):

Voice of Allah: Holy camel crap! My balls are burning with pain! Who is twisting my balls?

[1050 points appears on the counter and 72 raisins shower the screen]

So, if the national flag bearing the shahada or Islamic profession of faith ("There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Prophet of God") written on it with the swords is burned, much like they burn our national flag, can I assume seething will commence?

re: #45 sjborch

Flag desecration is against the law.
That, and the fact that they'd then claim America as their own,
just because of the slogan.
(Oh, wait - did I just take the fun out of something?)

Also directly below the "Soviet Flag" is the Jugoslavian Communist flag (which also no longer exists, its the one with the red star).

re: #125 pvoce

I didn't see if it was mentioned or not, but I think there's the old Yugoslav flag on the hackysack as well.

re: #147 green helmet guy

Also directly below the "Soviet Flag" is the Jugoslavian Communist flag (which also no longer exists, its the one with the red star).

Darn! pvoce beat me to it. ;-)

The new driving force in Saudi Arabia, the Burqha Moms, will get this mess cleared up!

re: #99 A Kiwi Infidel

re: #91 threecoloursblue

re: #89 A Kiwi Infidel

I knew you'd show up ! Want to trade Youtubes?

Lets wait 'til after the world cup...who you rootin' for?

[Link: video.yahoo.com...]

re: #150 Dustyvet

re: #99 A Kiwi Infidel

re: #91 threecoloursblue

re: #89 A Kiwi Infidel
I knew you'd show up ! Want to trade Youtubes?

Lets wait 'til after the world cup...who you rootin' for?

[Link: video.yahoo.com...]

Haka...

[Link: video.yahoo.com...]

Shouldn't all men just be offended because it is a "ball" and people are planning to kick it?

These people are absurd in the extreme. It would be comical if there was not so much violence.
Oh wait those are just alienated youts, well into their 40's, 50's and even 60's.

I suppose they would have been happier if we'd dropped a few severed infidel heads instead.

Soccer-Ball Jihad , is right around the corner .

But are we surprised ?

Remeber these are people who killed a male soccer coach for wearing ...OMIGOSH ! ...shorts .

So if this writing on the Saudi flag is so sacred, why is there no outrage over it being ON THE SAUDI FLAG in the first place?

Maybe because in Saudi Arabia Islam is the only Cult allowed to exist?

It's great that the Saudi flag is right beside the Israeli flag.

Kaffir's to the left of me,
Kaffirs to the right,
(Here I am)
Stuck in the middle with you.

A personal note: Back some years ago, I used to purchase much of my dress clothing in Tripler's, an upscale Madison Avenue store. At one time they featured a lovely necktie whose design was an assortment of flags of the world in miniature. So taken was I by this necktie, in view of our special business capabilities in translating and typesetting most world languages, I not only bought one for me to wear, but also duplicated for several company execs -- as if it were our own "corporate" tie.

A few years later, I saw the tie in stock again and purchased another,with a different background color. By that time, the store and it's parent company had fallen into the hands of Arab investors. It was after I got the new edition home that I discovered that, while the original had no Saudi flag but did have an Israeli one, the new version omitted Israel and had added Saudi Arabia. I suppose it's all right to wear a Saudi flag on a cravat but not to play with one on a soccer ball.

Both ties are still on my rack -- as a reminder of something or other.